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Penguin Eggs Tragedy

Dr. James J. S. Johnson

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but end thereof is the way of death. (Proverbs 14:12)

Collecting a few penguin eggs, in Antarctica, sounds like a “cool” adventure (pardon the pun), but the adventure is not worth dying for. Even moreso, dying in a quixotic quest to “prove Darwin right” is beyond merely reckless — it both foolhardy and tragic.

Here is my limerick, followed by a link to my earlier article “Penguins to Die For“, which appeared in ACTS & FACTS, 44(10):20 (October 2015), about how 5 Darwin fans froze to death, down under, for their error — trying to “prove” Darwin’s “natural selection” phylogenetic theory of biological origins. (Sad and foolish at the same time.)